Factors and Themes in Native Education and School Boards/First Nations Tuition Negotiations and Tuition Agreement Schooling ...

• Main Author: Burns, George E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Journal of Native Education 2021
• Subjects: Canada; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v22i1.195794; https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195794

The Aboriginal people adapted, thrived, and flourished for thousands of years be­ fore European occupation of North America. This overall success was largely a result of the interconnectedness of their social, personality, and cultural systems, which were notably indigenous in both spirit and character. Thereafter, these sys­tems, including institutions comprising the social system as in the case of kin­ ship, spirituality, political, economic, education, and political structures, have undergone the eroding effects of colliding Western world views and Indigenous world views, the former being steeped in the hegemonic aspirations and expecta­ tionsofEurocentricity. Thisarticleexaminesarangeofhegemonicfactorsand themes pertaining to the Indian residential school era and tire master tuition agreement eras in Canada. The article suggests that in the absence of radical chan­ges pertaining specifically to First Nations/provincial school boards tuition agree­ment negotiations and tuition schooling (where First ... : Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 22 No. 1 (1998) ...